Science, Exploration and the Human Experience

NASA's VIPER lunar mission (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) is a mobile robot that will go to the South Pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice that could eventually be harvested to sustain human exploration on the Moon, Mars - and beyond. Managed out of NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, VIPER represents the first resource mapping mission on another celestial body and presents a unique operational paradigm within the history of robotic spaceflight.

Speaker: Darlene Lim, NASA Ames